Jane Lynch

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

I think a little tidbit I can give you is that I grew up with basically everything handed to me, except for my career. I worked for that.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.

I think the only way we can really get you to laugh hard is if we take it to a deep psychological place. It has to resonate with you on a really deep level in order for you to really do that good guffaw.

I'd drop whatever I was doing to show up to do the graveyard shift of 'America's Shopping Place.'

When I'm not feeling good about how I look, I figure if I just buy the right piece of clothing, I'll feel all right.

The world, universe, God, whatever you call it, has so much more in store if you just sit back and relax and do what's right in front of you.

When I look back, I think I must have been hugely motivated. I would have loved for somebody to say, 'You go for it!' I just didn't have that.

I'm like Jay Gatsby. I like to throw the party and then stand back, looking gorgeous. Stand back and watch it.

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.